As a result of the continued actions to prevent and combat the threat of terrorism, the 23.01.2025 in a coordinated action of the Agency for national security, the Department to combat organized and serious crime, and the Department of special police operations and under the direction of the competent public prosecutor's office of the principal public prosecutor's office for prosecution of organized crime and corruption, were carried out претреси of the house and other facilities at five locations in Skopje, Macedonia. During the searches were discovered and seized more and more subjects, including an automatic rifle, a pistol, advertising material, telephone equipment, computer equipment, and other items, which will be the subject of further forensic expertise. Detained four persons, which by the Department to combat organized and serious crime to the prosecutor's office has filed a criminal complaint for the crime of "terrorist organization", provided for and punishable according to article 394 s. One of the individuals was included in the police action in 2015, and the other издржувало a prison sentence because of preparing for a terrorist attack.

For првопријавениот there are grounds for suspicion that it had created a terrorist cell in which the active participation of worked the other three, a registered person. The intention of the members of the terrorist cell had been carrying out a terrorist act, to the civic, or a so-called soft targets, i.e., the public buildings in the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia in order to create a sense of insecurity, or the fear of its citizens. The cell делувала on the position of the ideological matrix of the well-known terrorist organization, ИСИС, and for the realization of the idea first, or established by several groups in the social network Телеграм, in which споделувал previously acquired and translated propaganda material of the ИСИС and регрутирал new members are trying to purchase a firearm, and набавил, and the guidelines for the preparation of the improvised explosive done that, then I will use them for the performance of a terrorist attack.

The rest of the members have been part of the телеграм-group, where he споделувале the translated materials of which they were previously downloaded from the official media, used by a terrorist organization, ИСИС.